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Droplet Electricity Generators With Maximized Energy Collection Zone Enabled by Aloe‐Inspired Midrib and Cuticle

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
An Aloe‐pinspired droplet electricity generator (A‐DEG) overcomes the limited energy collection zone of conventional DEGs by guiding impact droplets through a channeling midrib and artificial cuticle. The channeling midrib induces uni‐directional droplet spreading, while the artificial cuticle on the midrib further reinforces this behavior through its ...
Gibeom Lee, Eunbyeol Kim, Kyongtae Choi, Minjun Song, Sunmin Jang, Dongwhi Choi, Donghyun Seo, Min‐Gyu Lee, Younghoon Lee   +8 more
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Direct Laser Writing of Magnetic Micro Actuators With a Stimulus‐Responsive Compliant Hinge

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This study presents a versatile modular design strategy for adaptive 3D microactuators. Using two‐photon‐induced C,H insertion reactions within solid polymer layers, chemically distinct hinge and stimulus responsive materials are patterned in one step. The hinge's properties enable tunable motion, mechanical control, and reconfigurable actuation across
Eleonora Galli, Nicolas Geid, Yizheng Liu, Friederike Strahl, Jürgen Rühe   +4 more
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Substituent Effects on Cyanine Dyes Vary with Position and Chain Length

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
In cyanines, substituent effects vary as a function of substituent position and cyanine length. Electron‐donating‐ and ‐withdrawing groups at meso‐ and α‐positions of 4n+1/4n−1 long cyanines (n = 1, 2, 3…) cause opposing, hypsochromic and bathochromic shifts of the 1st UV–vis absorption bands.
David Dunlop, Rebecca Strada, Peter Šebej   +2 more
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Chameleonic Color‐Variable Microbead Emitters for Multilevel Spectroscopic Encryption from Visible to Infrared Wavelengths

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
Whispering‐gallery‐mode microresonators with sharp resonant peaks enable photonic barcoding. Similar to a chameleon, a rare‐earth‐free microcavity with π‐conjugated PAHs enables visibleto‐near infrared color generation from a single microbead. The unique resonat emission (spectral barcode) can be dynamically transformed via excitation wavelength change,
Barun Kumar Barman, Keisuke Watanabe, Kenzo Deguchi, Shinobu Ohki, Kenjiro Hashi, Atsushi Goto, Tadaaki Nagao   +6 more
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In Situ Photopolymerization of Smectic B Liquid‐Crystalline Electrolytes from Mesogenic Phosphate–Diacrylate/Ionic Liquid Complexes for High‐Performance Soft Ionic Actuators

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A flexible liquid‐crystalline electrolyte membrane via in situ photopolymerization of a phosphate‐functionalized mesogen, ionic liquid, and diacrylate monomer is developed. The resulting smectic B (SmB)‐phase structure enables 2D ion transport with high conductivity (10−4 S cm−1).
Chengyang Liu, Masafumi Yoshio
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A Plug‐and‐Play Volume Minimizing Micromixer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Microscale fluid mixing has numerous applications where rapid and efficient mixing is required, including drug discovery, bio‐analysis and point‐of‐care diagnostics. Conventional soft lithography processes, however, make the integration of robust and reliable mixing difficult to implement in practice, especially across different flow rates ...
Kirill Kolesnik, Philipp Segeritz, Daniel J. Scott, David J. Collins   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Paternal Circadian Disruption Impairs Offspring Cognition via Sperm microRNAs

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Paternal circadian disruption remodels the sperm small RNA payload, elevating miR‐92a‐3p/miR‐25‐3p levels and perturbing early embryonic gene regulatory programs. Microinjection experiments and single‐embryo transcriptomics reveal sex‐specific developmental vulnerabilities, ultimately impairing offspring hippocampal synaptic plasticity and cognition ...
Kexin Zou, Sisi Luo, Binliang Tang, Zhiqiang Liu, Yuchuan Zhou, Yicong Meng, Zhengmu Wu, Zheng Sun, Weihui Shi, Jianzhong Sheng, Chuanjin Yu, Zhenhua Li, Siyi Wei, Mo Zhang, Yujie Luo, Jing Yan, Xueyun Qin, Jiahang Mo, Chengliang Zhou, Jinsong Li, Hefeng Huang, Yifu Ding, Guolian Ding   +22 more
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On the Origins of Toughness in Corymbia calophylla (Marri Tree) Nuts

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We uncover the natural toughening mechanisms of the marri nut, including fiber pullout, crack deflection, and a viscoelastic matrix, which enable exceptional energy absorption and ductility comparable to Teflon, with an elastic modulus similar to acrylic.
Wegood M. Awad, Ahmed S. Dalaq, Marieh B. Al‐Handawi, Rezo Getsadze, Oraib Al‐Ketan, James Weston, Mohammed Daqaq, Panče Naumov   +7 more
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Machine Learning for Green Solvents: Assessment, Selection and Substitution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Environmental regulations have intensified demand for green solvents, but discovery is limited by Solvent Selection Guides (SSGs) that quantify solvent sustainability. Training a machine learning model on GlaxoSmithKline SSG, a database of sustainability metrics for 10,189 solvents, GreenSolventDB is developed. Integrated with Hansen solubility metrics,
Rohan Datta, Janhavi Nistane, Abhishek Sose, Harikrishna Sahu, Rampi Ramprasad   +4 more
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Linearizing and Forecasting: A Reservoir Computing Route to Digital Twins of the Brain

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A new approach uses simple neural networks to create digital twins of brain activity, capturing how different patterns unfold over time. The method generates and recovers key dynamics even from noisy data. When applied to fMRI, it predicts brain signals and reveals distinctive activity patterns across regions and individuals, opening possibilities for ...
Gabriele Di Antonio, Tommaso Gili, Andrea Gabrielli, Maurizio Mattia   +3 more
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